Chapter 83 Inscription? Hades magic!

The two continued to grind on the second floor of the maze for a while, until the experience points of Hu Wan and his brother were full. Then they found a corner that was not easy to be discovered and lay down to log off.

Most monsters are not interested in the tooth-gritting skeletons, which is one of the advantages of skeleton soldiers and undead rats.

Unlike zombie units, although they are also undead creatures, they are still at risk of being eaten by scavengers when they go offline in the wild.

The skeleton soldiers just need to be careful of slimes and some plant monsters that can digest bones.

The next online time is scheduled for one hour later.

The cool thing about this game is that after putting on the VR glasses, your body is basically in a dormant state, just like a vegetative person, and you don't accumulate fatigue.

It’s a pity that his body in real life is too weak. Not only does he need to eat, drink, defecate, urinate, and take a bath, but he also has to get up and move around occasionally. Otherwise, he could really stay online for 24 hours.

Taking off the VR glasses and throwing them on the computer desk, Ye Zhiqiu got up and went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of wontons.

It’s autumn in the game, and it’s the same in reality. The north wind is howling outside the window, and it makes people feel cold just by looking at it.

It is most comfortable to eat something hot at this time.

Looking at the flames burning on the stove and the bubbles bubbling in the pot, he couldn't help but recall what the Demon King had said before.

“…magic comes from the imagination of objective things.”

"Magic is the technology that materializes the human spirit."

Looking at his right hand, he unconsciously began to imagine the shape of the flame in his mind... just like in the maze.

"Fireball..."

Although he knew it sounded stupid to say it out loud, he still couldn't help but whisper it. After all, there was no one else around.

The final result was just as he expected. Nothing happened in reality, but his spirit was slightly tired for a while.

certainly.

Maybe even the tiredness is an illusion.

Just as he was carefully recalling the feeling of being in the maze, a shrill alarm suddenly woke him from his trance.

“Woo——!”

That's obviously not the sound of a fireball—

Instead, the foam rolling out of the pot put out the fire on the stove, and the white smoke rising into the air triggered the kitchen smoke alarm! Ye Zhiqiu hurriedly turned off the gas, then opened the window for ventilation, until the shrill alarm stopped, and then he calmed his pounding heart.

Looking at the wontons that were cooked into a paste, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, scratched the back of his head, and complained to himself.

"I must be crazy."

I actually want to use magic in real life...

As he thought about it, he started to laugh.

Not to mention that the operating system and the underlying code are not the same, the most basic "ABCD" are not the same thing, right? ...

"Master Demon! Oak, Oak has made an important discovery!"

In the cemetery, Oak's magic workshop, standing under the wooden sign at the entrance of the cave, Oak was shouting excitedly.

Perhaps because he ate too much, he was particularly energetic. After dinner, he started working in the laboratory again, and he could work harder than his boss.

Luo Yan had been sitting on the bed meditating, but when he heard Youyou say that this guy kept muttering his name, he was afraid that there was urgent news to report, so he put his clothes back on and rushed over.

"What important discovery?"

"Those fragments are indeed the mechanical spells of the God of Machinery—Ouch!"

Before Oak could finish his words, he was hit on the forehead by a magic wand. He covered his bald head with his skinny hands and looked at the Demon King with tears in his eyes.

really.

Humans are appearance-oriented animals.

Feeling the hardness in his heart, Luo Yan became more certain of this. If it were a succubus, perhaps he would be hard somewhere else.

"Ouke, this is what you call urgent news?"

"No—of course it's not just that!"

Looking at the unfriendly demon king, Oak was trembling with fear and spoke quickly.

"Ouk copied down the inscriptions on the wreckage and compared them with the inscriptions that Ouk had learned in the academy before, and found that many of them were the same! I remember the complete runes and can translate them into the common language!"

The so-called common language is the Ottoman language.

At least that's the case on the surface human territory.

An interested expression appeared on Luo Yan's face and he put away his wand.

"Oh? You mean, you completed the runes on the fragment?"

"That's right!" Oak nodded timidly and stepped aside. "Dear Demon King, please follow me!"

Luo Yan naturally wouldn't be polite. He followed Oak and went straight to the latter's magic workshop.

Oak spread out the large and small parts and fragments on the ground, and copied and completed the so-called inscriptions on the straw paper beside him.

Seeing the crooked symbol, Luo Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, and suddenly an inexplicable familiar feeling surged in his heart.

Although he didn't recognize most of them, there were a few words that looked particularly familiar...

At the same time, Oak hurriedly picked up the straw paper on the ground, piled it into a pile, handed it to the Demon King with both hands, and explained diligently.

"The runes on this page are used on the joints of the puppet! They represent rotation, orientation, and calibration... They are mainly related to movement!"

"Then there is this page, which is mainly written on the inside of the puppet's breastplate! It mainly means to enhance defense, and--"

Luo Yan: "And make the armor lighter?"

"That's right...Huh?!" Oak's face showed a shocked expression, and he looked at the Demon King in amazement, "Sir, have you learned rune magic?"

Luo Yan shook his head with a subtle expression.

"No, but I know the word."

As he spoke, he extended his index finger and pointed at the straw paper, pointing to the crooked word "Light" at the end of a line of inscriptions.

"Is this pronounced 'qing'?"

Oak was shocked and said in surprise.

"Incredible! You can actually read it!"

Luo Yan smiled and moved his index finger down again, pointing to the word "爆" at the end of the next line.

"Is this pronounced 'bao'?"

"Jane, you are absolutely right! You are a genius!!!"

Oak clenched his fists excitedly, and his admiring expression made it hard to tell whether it was flattery or from the heart.

But for the goblins, it doesn't make any difference.

"Okay, you know this is not what I want to hear," Luo Yan put away the smile on his face, looked at Ou Ke and continued, "So do you have anything else to report to me?"

Oak nodded excitedly and fearfully, and continued tremblingly.

"Of course, my lord... If it was just a small matter, Oak would not dare to disturb your rest, but, but the shocking thing is not just this!"

As he spoke, he quickly turned the straw paper in Luo Yan's hand to the next page, and saw lines of inscriptions listed in different categories, with the same words written at the end of each sentence.

There are 10 permutations and combinations that include "movement", 7 permutations and combinations that include "lightness", and 5 permutations and combinations that include "explosion"...

That’s certainly not all.

However, even the existing inscriptions are enough to explain a lot of things.

Luo Yan showed an interested look on his face.

To make an image-based but inappropriate analogy, this feeling is like the "instruction set" in a programming language? He flipped through the paper in his hand, and sure enough, he saw the word "judgment" that seemed to be a judgment statement, and the word "loop" that seemed to be a loop statement on the last few pages! Oak's face showed an intoxicated expression, and he spoke in a dreamy voice.

"Have you discovered...? These chaotic inscriptions actually have a pattern! This is simply incredible!"

This is really incredible.

There are no rules to follow in inscription magic, which can be said to be the direct reason why the entire inscription magic cannot form a system and even the decline of ancient language.

Luo Yan remembered that he had learned in the History of Magic class that in the barbaric period before the First Era, there were mainly two types of supernatural powers active on this land.

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One of them is elemental magic, which originated from the nature worship of primitive tribes.

Another is inscription magic, the root of the belief comes from the hieroglyphs of the "most ancient civilization" - an "ancient language" consisting of a total of 172 hieroglyphic characters.

Today's complex and diverse supernatural power system with numerous factions is ultimately evolved from these two systems.

For example, dragon language magic is the most typical example.

In Dragon Language Magic, we can see the shadow of early elemental magic, as well as the inheritance from inscription magic.

That is, the power of rules contained in language!

However, the ancient language that is linked to inscription magic is obviously much more violent than Dragon Language.

It is said that in the distant primitive tribal period, the creatures of the most ancient civilization active on this land would not lie.

Because as long as the words are spoken in ancient language, they will have the contractual meaning given by the supernatural power, and anyone who violates the contract will be punished by the supernatural power... For example, if someone swears on lightning and breaks his oath, he may really be struck to death by lightning.

In order to avoid being struck by lightning and to prevent their careless words from being exploited, more and more creatures began to use homophones, and only use the correct pronunciation when necessary.

After all, whether or not one has broken an oath is something that is inherently highly subjective.

The clever chiefs and priests took advantage of people's conservatism and fear of the unknown, quickly seized this power for themselves, and took the initiative to concentrate the extraordinary power. They thus became the earliest privileged class and began to annex other primitive tribes with their people.

For quite a long time, inscription magic had an overwhelming advantage over elemental magic, and it could even be said to dominate the direction of the battlefield.

After all, the early tribesmen had not yet truly mastered the method of consolidating their faith, and their simultaneous calls could not bring about a heavy downpour; at most they could only bring a few raindrops.

However, as time passed and civilization continued to evolve, the situation soon changed.

One of the most important inventions in the history of civilization – the concept of religion – was born.

I don't know from which day, the worship of nature by humans, elves, dwarves, orcs and all other creatures gradually turned into the worship of gods, and in this process gradually condensed into godhood, evolved into a clear-cut pantheon, and ushered in the era of mythology!

Compared with the increasingly conservative and even clumsy ancient language, this huge force not only transcends the barriers of species, but also transcends the concept of tribes and even the nation that was born later.

It was like a tank that appeared in the primitive era, sweeping across the land with overwhelming force, condensing thousands of raindrops into a downpour! On the other hand, although inscription magic flourished in the tribal era, it was always in the hands of only a few people. No matter how much extraordinary power it condensed, it could not change its current situation of becoming a minority. It eventually lost to the times itself and was submerged in the dust of history.

It is regrettable that although inscription magic is essentially the power of rules, until its heyday passed, it did not evolve into the power of self-restraint like elemental magic, and eventually became the largest pile of shit in the underlying code of this world.

Today, only the elves and dwarves still speak of the Ancient Tongue and the origins of Glyph Magic.

Regardless of whether it is the elves or dwarves who are obsessed with the past, the knowledge they possess about inscription magic is just the tip of the iceberg of its glorious period, a few words in the dictionary library.

Neither the elves nor the dwarves, even if their knowledge bases were added together, could come up with a complete set of 172 ancient hieroglyphs.

Not to mention the phrases composed of these hieroglyphs, and the grammar connecting the phrases. Even the dwarves who are most proficient in inscription craft have never created a puppet driven entirely by inscriptions. At most, they would add some terms enhanced by inscriptions to the equipment or elemental puppets, and drive the terms to take effect when infused with "spiritual power".

Looking at the entries that Okro listed on the draft paper, Luo Yan immediately understood the work that Lint Isaac had done in the field of inscription magic.

This guy actually used the programming thinking on Earth to re-edit some of the existing inscriptions!

Specifically, it is to select the usable terms from the shitty code, classify them, and annotate them with their "original" pictographic characters (Chinese)! This is like borrowing words from foreign cultures, combining them with the original phrases, and forming new sentences with new "grammar"! And this so-called grammar is actually the "programming language" redefined by the God of Machinery, Lint Isaac.

He preserved the original code to the greatest extent possible and gave the old code a new lease of life! Compared to reinventing a language with extraordinary power to create a new extraordinary system, improving the original extraordinary system can undoubtedly save a lot of costs!

Whether it is the cost of time or the cost of faith!

And this is probably the real reason why that guy was able to form a mudslide in a short period of time and almost swept the entire world.

If that guy succeeded, the Mechanicus would be the new Saint Sith, the new master who ruled the Empire and even the entire planet! It was a pity that this guy didn't catch up with the good times and didn't survive. Not long after he started his business, he was destroyed by the Empire, which was at its "historical peak".

"This guy is awesome... Could he be a graduate of BlueX?"

At first Luo Yan thought that this guy was just creating an abstract version of the Industrial Revolution, but he didn't expect that the actual work he did was far more than he imagined?

Looking at the piece of straw paper in his hand, Luo Yan became more and more excited, and even the sleepiness that had accumulated in his heart disappeared.

What should this thing be called? Isaac Inscription? Lin's Inscription?

Or maybe just call it "Netherland"! Anyway, the Isaac followers who made such a bunch of crappy self-destructing robots probably don't understand this "Lin language" themselves, and can only copy it by imitation, just like those new-age chiefs who abandoned the ancient language in ancient times... Otherwise, they can obviously use these inscriptions to make more flexible and more versatile robots! Luo Yan has reason to believe that Lint Isaac had given up on this bunch of rubbish long ago, otherwise the natural disaster system would not have fallen into his hands.

By this calculation, the orthodoxy of the God of Machinery is clearly in my hands! There is nothing wrong with calling it "Mingwen"!

At worst, I can steal some more from the devil later and inject some new things into it!

Although these languages ​​are difficult to understand for aliens with poor logical thinking, they are not very difficult for Luo Yan.

No need to learn programming.

Anyone who has modified a game save file can figure it out!

Luo Yan believed that not only himself, but also his players could find a lot of "experts"! "My former master spent a lot of time trying to understand the secrets of mechanical spells, but unfortunately, all he found were fragmentary words! Now this monument is right in front of Oak... Holy! Bah! Devil! I didn't expect this treasure to be hidden in the maze!"

There was an obsessed expression on Oak's face, and he was obviously still immersed in this great archaeological discovery.

Luo Yan chuckled and spoke softly.

"There are no such things in the maze. It is undoubtedly the work of the pagans who sneaked into the maze. The lack of order allowed them to see an opportunity... But these guys obviously didn't realize that there are people who really know what's going on here. Their self-defeating behavior actually helped us."

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of metal plate from the parts.

That is the head assembly of the "robot".

In order to match the characteristics of "Netherworld", this component obviously uses different materials... and the material seems to be one of the factors that allows "Netherworld" to achieve the greatest effect.

Comparing the entries summarized by Oak, he quickly restored the contents written on the metal plate.

Although he couldn't understand the entire text, he still recognized the words "hot" and "judgment".

As for the word "movement" written on the leg joint component, it's not that difficult either... In short, it's "conditional motion instruction set"? "Heat value judgment, right? When the distance is between 100 and 5 parameters, the action component is activated. When the distance is less than parameter 5, the blasting component is triggered. At the same time, all the magic power of the energy module is extracted and injected into and the explosion instruction set is activated... So that's it, after all this time it's 'heat source search'! No wonder Dust Shadow and Blindness are useless to them, these little robots don't have eyes at all!"

There are so many ways to lower body temperature to the ambient temperature. He can think of at least three spells alone, and even more magic props.

Thinking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help but smile.

I didn't expect that I could conquer the third level of the maze like this!

Not only that—

He also opened up a new growth path for his little players, as well as a gameplay full of cemetery characteristics! They must be very happy to be coders in a magical world! (End of this chapter)